Quotes About Creativity

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

I've been interested in the writing/directing thing and really fell into acting by complete accident.

I went to art school, and I wanted to be an artist since I was 5. I basically moved to New York to do art, and I just sort of fell into doing music at an early age.

Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.

Dahl was my favorite author as a child. When I got older, I discovered his adult stories and fell even more in love with him.

With L.A. it's like, yeah, there's Death Row and whatever. But I always wanted to know what those artists were sampling. It's how I fell in love with music.

I still feel like that 17-year-old-kid that fell in love with country music, but I also am allowed to write songs about being a man, too, which I think is the coolest place I've ever been in my life.

I've got some stories to tell, and acting was a way I could express myself and not feel stupid. I fell in love with that.

I fell in love with film and its potential. The idea of putting one image next to another image and creating meaning blew my mind.

I've always taken a lot of joy in my work, but it's also been very results-oriented. It's kind of like, making the thing, and taking a lot of joy in that, as opposed to allowing myself to be transported by the work of my fellow musicians.

Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

I keep getting compared to Marina and the Diamonds because she's kind of in the same place as me at the moment. It's quite annoying being compared, actually, because it almost downgrades your work and makes you feel like you're just another female artist.

I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

I see myself as the female John Cleese.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.

Jhene Aiko, I like Zara Larsson, I like working with female artists.

It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.

I always think it's a little bit of a challenge when people sort of associate female artists as their own genre.

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

Digital shows have played a big part in empowering female artists. I'm very lucky to be a part of such projects.

I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.

I just love seeing other females work.

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.